It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk. Luca Parmitano More Quotes by Luca Parmitano More Quotes From Luca Parmitano Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget. Luca Parmitano technology skills simple My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach. Luca Parmitano beautiful memories beach You are a team and have to work all together to reach your goal, which is that of winning. Luca Parmitano oddly-enough I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot. Luca Parmitano pilot road flying dream Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question. Luca Parmitano question job being want So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary. Luca Parmitano down speak opportunity people Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues. Luca Parmitano colleagues special food relationship
